Bang the drum slowly, friends, because the cowboy hat and its cousin, the farmer’s straw hat, are vanishing from the Plains. Just as folks in the rest of the world have discovered cowboy hats as Texas chic, the real thing has been relegated to weddings, funerals, and VFW dances. The rest of the time, the basic Texas head will likely be topped off with a new headdress, whose first advantage is that it probably arrived free of charge. It is also cooler (and warmer), stays put in the wind, staves off tractor rollovers, and does just about everything better than the classic hats, except hold water. It doesn’t, alas, look better, but who’s to argue with what the people want? Ladies and gentlemen, I give…
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